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The eloquent

gives us the lowdown on the recent Pronoun Throwdown. "The insistence on the universal use of pronouns has nothing to do with kindness, and everything to do with compelled homage to...a false and alienating belief system."

The Lowdown on the Pronoun Throwdown

My instinctive response to each perspective was useful in helping me clarify my own position.

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There is no such thing as a "trans kid." There are just boys and girls, and they deserve to grow up healthy and whole and without being indoctrinated to believe in harmful biological pseudoscience.

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Trans kids are kids — they deserve to grow up without constant political attacks on their lives and health care. news-leader.com/story/news/pol

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They did this when I worked at Bayer helping develop biologic pesticides, but they called it "encouraged evolution." Same principle though. Thing is, these "evolutionary" methods are actually more dangerous because it mutates the entire genome and is therefore less predictable.

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This "directed evolution" method of creating mutants, as opposed to direct genetic modification, is not done because it's less dangerous. It's done because it's less LEGALLY dangerous, has fewer regulations to abide by, and has less social stigma associated with it. That's all.

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Project Veritas

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BREAKING: @Pfizer Exploring "Mutating" COVID-19 Virus For New Vaccines "Don't tell anyone this...There is a risk...have to be very controlled to make sure this virus you mutate doesn't create something...the way that the virus started in Wuhan, to be honest." #DirectedEvolution

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1/ 🧵When I worked at Bayer, they got around regulations on "genetically modified" pesticide biologics by performing so-called "encouraged evolution" to achieve a desired mutation. Similar to how Pfizer is performing "directed evolution" to avoid calling it "gain of function."

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BREAKING: @Pfizer Exploring "Mutating" COVID-19 Virus For New Vaccines "Don't tell anyone this...There is a risk...have to be very controlled to make sure this virus you mutate doesn't create something...the way that the virus started in Wuhan, to be honest." #DirectedEvolution

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"Trans kids" are created by cults. They don't occur naturally. See my essay below. ⬇️

How To Make a ‘Trans Kid’

Since adults typically make difficult converts, gender activists are increasingly turning their focus to children.

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There is no such thing as a "trans kid." There are just boys and girls, and they deserve to grow up healthy and whole and without being indoctrinated to believe in harmful biological pseudoscience.

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ACLU

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Trans kids are kids — they deserve to grow up without constant political attacks on their lives and health care. news-leader.com/story/news/pol

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Christina Buttons

@buttonslives

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WATCH: this new indie documentary was recently deplatformed by Vimeo for "hateful content." "Dead Name," a 50 minute film that follows the stories of 3 parents whose children were influenced to adopt a transgender identity, is now hosted on deadnamedocumentary.com

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The Lowdown on the Pronoun Throwdown |

@BarbaraRKay

"What starts with alleged courtesy toward a political 'truth' rather than objective reality often ends in voluntary sabotage of one’s own self-respect."

The Lowdown on the Pronoun Throwdown

My instinctive response to each perspective was useful in helping me clarify my own position.

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Wilfred Reilly

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(5) For top alternative media site

, this is my take on "preferred prounoun" rituals: I have the same 'never mandate things I'm oft willing to personally be polite about' attitude toward Wokeism that I do toward older and wiser religions...

Pronoun Throwdown: Should ‘Preferred Pronouns’ Be Respected?

A symposium of opinions on cross-sex pronoun use.

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The eloquent

gives us the lowdown on the recent Pronoun Throwdown. "The insistence on the universal use of pronouns has nothing to do with kindness, and everything to do with compelled homage to...a false and alienating belief system."

The Lowdown on the Pronoun Throwdown

My instinctive response to each perspective was useful in helping me clarify my own position.

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A PhD.

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noisé

@proetrie

what’s often incorrectly perceived as a sign of intelligence?

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Wesley Yang

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There's this idea that maybe there's something real there and one must reconcile and come to terms with it. You have to study it closely for a while in good faith to realize: Actually, it's all fake.

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4/ This was always fully acknowledged within the company. Meanwhile the Left-wing protesters went and protested Monsanto down the street because they were producing evil "genetically modified" plants and pesticides, while we were spared because we did "encouraged evolution."

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3/ These "evolutionary" methods to create mutants are not done because they're less dangerous to humans. It's done because it's less LEGALLY dangerous, has fewer costly regulations to circumvent, and has less social stigma associated with it. That's all.

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2/ But these "encouraged" or "directed" "evolution" methods are actually more dangerous than straightforward genetic modification, because the mutations are not precisely targeted. They mutate the ENTIRE genomes with mutagens and what they produce is much more unpredictable.

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1/ 🧵When I worked at Bayer, they got around regulations on "genetically modified" pesticide biologics by performing so-called "encouraged evolution" to achieve a desired mutation. Similar to how Pfizer is performing "directed evolution" to avoid calling it "gain of function."

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Project Veritas

@Project_Veritas

BREAKING: @Pfizer Exploring "Mutating" COVID-19 Virus For New Vaccines "Don't tell anyone this...There is a risk...have to be very controlled to make sure this virus you mutate doesn't create something...the way that the virus started in Wuhan, to be honest." #DirectedEvolution

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Source: I'm an idiot with a PhD

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A PhD.

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"This trend is deeply concerning, as the politicization of science leads to the loss of public trust, as well as the loss of time and funding that could otherwise be going to worthwhile projects and innovation." –

@GoadMason

The Ideological Intensification of DEI in STEM

DEI must be stopped from destroying the sciences, the humanities, the arts, and Western civilization at large.

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Leor Sapir

@LeorSapir

In 2013, a group of clinicians that included M. Hidalgo, D. Ehrensaft, S. Rosenthal, N. Spack, and J. Olson wrote an article called "The Gender Affirmative Model: What We Know and What We Aim to Learn," in which they explained the basics of the affirmative approach. 🧵

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Reality's Last Stand

Context Matters in the Pronoun Debate |

Read Colin's full essay:realityslaststand.com/p/pronoun-thro

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If you consume fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight. It's that simple.

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Nick Diller

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This is the person who’s going to be setting dietary guidelines. Idk how anyone takes health advice from the government seriously

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If you consume fewer calories than you burn, you will lose weight. It's that simple.

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Nick Diller

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This is the person who’s going to be setting dietary guidelines. Idk how anyone takes health advice from the government seriously

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‎The Unspeakable Podcast: Yes, Youth Gender Surgery Is Really Happening: Colin Wright Lays Out The...

This one, with

, lays out what's really happening with respect to medicalization and surgeries for young people (admittedly, I thought it was less common than it is) and explains how intersex conditions do and do NOT relate to any of this.

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‎Show The Unspeakable Podcast, Ep Yes, Youth Gender Surgery Is Really Happening: Colin Wright Lays Out The Details - Oct 3, 2022

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Reality's Last Stand

To Call or Not Call a Man ‘She,’ That Is the Question |

@salltweets

Read Sall's full essay:realityslaststand.com/p/pronoun-thro

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Newsmax hit on Rob Schmitt Tonight

Jumped on

last evening with

to discuss our recently published piece on social media & mental health.

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"This trend is deeply concerning, as the politicization of science leads to the loss of public trust, as well as the loss of time and funding that could otherwise be going to worthwhile projects and innovation." –

@GoadMason

The Ideological Intensification of DEI in STEM

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Thanks to

for putting this together. My view is more or less the same as

@salltweets

, I was glad to see some variations on the question I hadn't thought of:

Pronoun Throwdown: Should ‘Preferred Pronouns’ Be Respected?

A symposium of opinions on cross-sex pronoun use.

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Christina Buttons

@buttonslives

Legacy Media Misrepresents Results Of New Study On Child Sex Change Treatments

A new study out last week has been touted by left-wing media outlets as proof of the mental health benefits of “gender-affirming” care in teens. Read my latest on how they deceived their readers and what the study REALLY shows. 🧵

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Symposia like this with 8 authors take A LOT of time and effort to cobble together. And I made it free because I believe the article's value is in exposing as many people as possible to new ideas. I'm proud of the symposium and extremely grateful to everyone who participated.

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It reminded me of being harassed and shunned by my woke colleagues for publishing in Quillette or defending JK Rowling back when I was still in academia. It felt a bit like an identity politics struggle session.

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I'll be honest, while some people appreciated my good-faith attempt at exposing readers to a wide range of viewpoints on a volatile issue, I was disappointed at the overall response. Many missed the point and were upset about WHO I chose to publish.

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